...Stretching 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometers) from east to west and 3,400 miles (5,500 kilometers) from north to south, China is a large country with widely varying landscapes. Its territory includes mountains, high plateaus, sandy deserts, and dense forests. One-third of China's land area is made up of mountains. The tallest mountain on Earth, Mount Everest, sits on the border between China and Nepal. China has thousands of rivers. The Yangtze and the Yellow Rivers are the most important. At 3,915 miles (6,300 kilometers) long, the Yangtze is the world's third largest river. Source: Kidport China is a very diverse land including deserts, mountains and fertile river basins. Much of western China is mountains with the Himalaya, Tian and Pamir ranges. Western China also has a large desert. Central...
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...China is most famous for being the world’s most populous country populating more than 1.3 billion people, which is 20 percent of the Earth’s population. China occupies most of East Asia making it the fourth largest country in the area, measuring 9,596,960 square kilometers (after Russia, Canada, and the United States China’s geography in the east and west is extremely varied. East China is filled with hills, plains, and river deltas. West China is filled with high plateaus and mountains. South China and northeastern China’s climate is similarly varied. Because of China’s enormous area and countless landforms, China consist of climate zones that range from subarctic to tropical. China's northern province of Heilongjiang has average winter temperatures...
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...China is one of the oldest civilizations,dating back thousand of years with continuous history. The first period in ancient China was the neolithic period followed by the Xia Dynasty, the Shang Dynasty, the Zhou Dynasty and the Western Zhou. The Yangtze River considered to be the cradle of Chinese civilization. Ancient historical text have provided some proof of the possible existence of the Xia Dynasty that existed even before the Shang Dynasty of 1700-1046 B.C. The last time period considered to be included in the Ancient China time period was the Eastern Zhou. Imperial China followed Ancient China beginning with the Qin Dynasty. The Xia Dynasty ruled from the 21st to the 17th century B.C. The Shang Dynasty ruled from the 17th century to 1046 B.C. They ruled a lot of the area along the Yellow River. It’s founder w2as Tang. The Zhou ruled from 1046 to 256 B.C. This was the longest ruling dynasty in China’s history. The Western Zhou, the first part of the Zhou Dynasty ruled from 1046 to 771 B.C. Its founder was King Wu. The eastern Zhou, the second of the Zhou Dynasty ruled from 770 to 256 B.C. The Peking Man that was discovered in 1923 is the most famous Homo erectus specimen of Paleolithic man in Ancient China. By Shang times, the Chinese had developed complex religious beliefs many of which continued to be practiced for...
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...Seminar One Culture Research As the largest country in the world to date, China holds a population of over 1.3 billion people; 1,355,692,576 to be exact (Central Intelligence Agency, 2014). China’s population makes up around 19.3% of the world’s population (World Population Statistics, 2014). According to World Population Statistics (2014), "Based on the population and the total area of the country, the population density of China in 2014 is estimated to be about 145 people per square kilometer or 375 people per square mile (Para 1)." The average life span of individuals in the country is 75.15 as of July 2014 (Central Intelligence Agency, 2014). China is recorded to rank number nine in the world population for people of age 100 and higher (World Population Statistics, 2014). Currently, the amount of people of the age 100+ is 14, 803 (World Population Statistics, 2014). China's total Gross Domestic Product amounted to $13.374 trillion as of 2013 (Workman, 2014). About 16.5% of exports are accounted for of the country's total economic output (Workman, 2014). While China has ten largely grossing export product groups, the biggest export is electronic equipment (Workman, 2014). Grossing at a grand $561,703,550,000, this top export makes up of 25.4% of total exports in the country (Workman, 2014). The biggest import is electrical and other machinery such as office machine parts, insulated wire, low-voltage protection equipment and rubber tires (Workman, 2014). China exports far more...
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...China is one of the oldest civilizations on Earth, dating back to the Bronze Age. Today, China is the world’s most populated country with a quickly growing economy. Throughout China’s evolution from an ancient civilization to a monumental country, the Yangtze and Huang He rivers, the Himalayan and Kunlun mountain ranges, the Gobi and Taklamakan Deserts, the Yellow and East China Seas, and the Pacific Ocean all played an important role in the development of its culture and history. Like most of the world’s first civilizations, China formed around rivers, mainly the Huang He and the Yangtze, due to the many advantages rivers offered (Geography). They provided fertile land for farming that the Chinese economy traditionally depended on (“Central”)....
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...I. Essentially, contact with China began when Japan sent diplomatic envoys to the Sui dynasty. Later on, contact with Tang dynasty China increased during the Nara period and reached its peak during the Heian period. As such Japanese ambassadors to China were continually dispatched, in turn bringing back with them some Chinese culture. Buddhism was then introduced and because of that there were now decrees on the taboos of meat consumption, making Japan a fish-eating country at the time. However, aside from Buddhism as a Chinese influence on Japanese dietary culture, rice, barley, wheat, buckwheat, noodle making, soybeans and soy products such as tofu, soy sauce and miso paste and most importantly tea which are now considered as staples of...
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...differences than what we have today. What they saw in clothing and beauty is very fascinating. Their clothing was very elegant, but what they did to be beautiful and to look nice was shocking. The Chinese are very good people who came up with their ideas of beauty. To start off with clothing, in ancient China, poor people had to make their clothing out of hemp or ramie while the rich wore silk. People often wore tunics, which are like long t-shirts. When women wore tunics, they were very long, down to the ground and they added belts. For the men, they wore short tunics that were down to their knees. In winter, the Chinese wore padded jackets over their tunics and sometimes pants under them too. During the Sui Dynasty (581-618), the emperor decided that all poor people had to wear blue or black on their clothing, and only rich people could wear colors. This was a rule because blue and black weren’t considered important or beautiful colors. Then, cotton was brought by the Mongols during the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368). At first, people didn’t want to grow cotton because silk was still too popular, and everyone wanted to continue getting silk. Often, most people in China had long hair, men and women. The Chinese believed it was very disrespectful and rude to cut your hair because it was...
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...Food Between Han Dynasty China and Ancient Rome By Joaquin Velazquez 2/7/2024 Ancient Rome and Han Dynasty China were very similar empires, despite being seven and a half thousand kilometers away from each other. The two empires' food and meat were far different. According to Jacqueline M Newman, in her text, “Han Dynasty Foods” (2005), “Among the meat and poultry items, or parts thereof, are chicken, crane, deer, dog, duck, frog (bamboo chicken), goose, hare, magpie, ox, pheasant, pigeon, sheep, sparrow, and turtledove.” There were a great deal of meats that the citizens of China feasted on and enjoyed. Ancient Rome ate very little meat,...
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...the 16th century, to present day, China has been among the most powerful economic leaders worldwide. Naturally, China has had ups and downs due to global developments and discoveries, social and economic changes, political unrest, and just downright bad luck. But through it all, China always manages, in one way or another, to get back to that number one spot. This is why I believe that in 100 years, China will be the leading economic power. In 1500 B.C.E., in the very early years of discovering, exploring, and colonizing the newly found Americas, Ming China was an untouchable economic power. All silver went through the country to be processed and all of the finer items such as silk and delicate dishware came out of China. The only real competition was the Muromachi state, but the Ming felt they were little more than an inconvenience....
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...This is about 16 years after the Nestorian Christian missionary named Alopun went to Chang An. The embassy was led by Sa’d ibn Abi Waqqas, the maternal uncle of the prophet himself. Emperor Gaozong, the Tang emperor who received the envoy then ordered the construction of the Memorial mosque in Canton, the first mosque in the country. Islam arrived after Buddhism and Christianity, Muslim traders began to arrive in China during the Tang Empire, and perhaps hundreds of thousands of Muslims were brought to the Mongol Yuan Empire. The Mongols used them to govern and administrate China and many Mongols became Christians. While modern historians tend to argue that there is no evidence for Waqqas himself ever coming to China, they do believe that Muslim diplomats and merchants arrived in Tang China within a few decades from the beginning of idle Ages. The Tang Dynasty’s cosmopolitan culture, with intensive contacts with Central Asia and its significant communities of originally non Muslim Central and western Asia merchants’ resident in Chinese cities, which helped the introduction of...
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...it was an academy that used to train their soldiers the virtues of Buddhism, the members were taught b the monks to be loyal to the king” Monks serving as chaplains were entrusted with their religious education and taught them universalistic Buddhism and loyalty to king”. The patriotism of people and strong army helped Silla gain control over the peninsula. Silla by the assistance of T’ang forces was able to conquer its neighboring kingdoms. Both Silla and T’ang attacked Paekche and Koguryo, and after several battles they were able to overcome both kingdoms. Moreover, Silla was powerful enough to expel tang china forces from its territory and declare its independence. Because after the fall of Koguryo and Paekche, Tang China tried to colonize the Korean peninsula and control the three kingdoms. However, after almost a decade Silla forces were successful to eject Tang china from it’s territories, and preserved its hegemony over the territory. Which led the Silla Dynasty to its flourishing ages both economically and socially. On the other hand, there were several reasons that led to the fall of the Silla Dynasty, the most important reason is the new concept of Buddhism which was the Pure Land Buddhism. Commoners were tired of the traditional Hwam Buddhism because of its inaccessibility, as it was written in Chinese characters, local people did not have the time nor the money to learn Chinese so it was only available for the aristocrats. Pure land Buddhism was welcomed by the people...
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...Ancient China Vocabulary: Oracle Bones animal bones or shells used by Shang kings to communicate with the gods Pictographs Pictures or drawings that represent words or ideas Dynastic cycle pattern of the rise and fall of dynasties Mandate of Heaven Ancient Chinese belief that a good ruler had gods’ approval What we already know: We know that ancient Egypt had a Nile river. We Also know that Egyptians Technology was very good. Specialized Workers: Well when the Chinese got surplus of crops they started moving to other jobs to get really good at it you have to practice it a lot. If you are a specialized worker on something, you would be called an artisan to your work. One of the jobs that the Chinese were specialized in or artisans...
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...Although, in some cases walls can actually be harmful for example, they can instigate wars by creating borders that may not be correct, they can be harmful to the environment, and more. In this paper I will be discussing the goals of the Great Wall of China, if they were accomplished, and Trump’s plan to build a wall at the border between the United States and Mexico. Overall the goal of the Great Wall of China was not accomplished. The goal of the Great Wall of China was to defend China from the Mongols (Keenan, Michael). For...
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...China, the most populous country known to man, dehumanizes its citizens by recklessly ending lives as an attempt to profit from murder. Undeniably, an unbelievable amount of crimes exist all throughout the world. Such crimes in particular, known as crimes against humanity, are deliberately executed to systematically violate human rights to a widespread population. For decades, these crimes have persisted across China and still remain today. China violates human rights through crimes involving torture, harassment, and most notably, organ trafficking. Organ trafficking is a crime where organs are illegally forced or taken from bodies to use for transplantations. These crimes in China cause controversy throughout the world resulting in failed attempts to end such offenses. China’s human rights violations...
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...The End of Legal Ivory Trade in China The ancient art of ivory carving, trading, and selling is an important tradition in the Chinese culture that can date back to almost 3,000 BCE (Britannica). Around the time of the imperial era, ivory was used to carve statues of deities and medallions in garden scenes, which were envied by the court officials. Ivory carvings, chopsticks, and jewelry were also a way to show off wealth. This is what the ivory market was primarily driven by in China (Katz). The Chinese are very proud of their ivory carving history and argue that it is a long lasting tradition that should go on, even though about 30,000 elephants are killed by poachers for their ivory, every year. This means that the population of elephants...
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